Keep it simple: In general, interfaces should use simple geometric forms, minimal contours, and a restricted color palette comprised primarily of less-saturated or neutral colors balanced with a few high contrast accent colors that emphasize important information.
ALAN COOPERI just try and learn to be a good husband and be a good father before I am a good rock star. That means saying no to certain things that go with the business.
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In turn, we will be tempted to kill our computers, but we won’t dare because we are already utterly, irreversibly dependent on these hopeful monsters that make modern life possible.
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One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.
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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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To scenes by memory’s silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho’ it sprung From one united heart.
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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
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I just like so many different kinds of music that I like experimenting. I don’t want to keep making the same record over and over and over.
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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I just try and learn to be a good husband and be a good father before I am a good rock star. That means saying no to certain things that go with the business.
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If your persona has goals and the product has magical powers to meet them, how simple could the interaction be? This kind of thinking is useful to help designers look outside the box.
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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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